Black Holes Are Warm and Fuzzy

They are ramping up my Metformin, Metformin being a diabetes medicine that does two things: 1. It compels your intestines to stop absorbing so much sugar and 2. Compels your body to produce and use insulin more efficiently. This is relevant because this week in science physicists have declared that the "surface" of a black hole may be warm and fuzzy, not unlike the lower intestines. Have I lost you yet? I hope not, because science is fun! Let's talk about physics: it's a force to be reckoned with! *nerd snort* *giggle*


Apparently, unknown to most of us, there has been a debate raging in the theoretical physics world -and by raging I mean pen shaking and strongly worded emails. There might have been a few scientific calculators thrown around but nobody is talking so the charges were dropped. In any case two camps have formed. I will try to condense the information into as small a space as possible -much like a black hole might do:


Without getting technical or mathematical (because let's face it we don't want that. Remember imaginary numbers in math? Yeah well, theoretical physics is imaginary numbers gone ludicrous speed. It is math gone plaid. You'd rather be sucked into a black hole.), the debate can be simplified as such:


1. There is a camp that believes perfection IS necessary and therefore their math says anything that touches a black hole is instantly annihilated in fiery destruction. Annihilation and destruction both being necessary to describe the utter nihilism of what occurs. The black hole does not have a surface so much as a "firewall". Pleasant.


2. There is a camp that believes perfection IS NOT necessary and therefore their math says the black hole actually has a surface. What's more is this surface is warm and fuzzy and translates anything that touches it into a glorious hologram copy.


Now I don't know about you but I have a soft spot for camp number two, because warm, fuzzy, and holograms. Plus no perfection is required! I bet they have cookies. Even sugar free cookies for all us diabetics. On our own Swarovski crystal plate. That's how cool camp 2 is.


The perfection thing these folks are debating is a little thing called complementarity and the way it applies here is that it says a perfect hologram cannot be formed on the surface of a black hole. Camp 1 insists that if there can be no perfect hologram then there must be fiery death. Camp 2 says mathematically modified complementarity can allow it.


The interesting thing is that both camps got their math correct, which means the math allows both views. See? Ludicrous speed. It also means that my intestines, being warm and fuzzy, may have more in common with a black hole than one might first imagine. That's right, our guts are all black holes and science has proven it mathematically.


I tried to explain this to my wife and she just tilted her head and said "Are you calling me fat?"


"No honey! It's a complementarity!"


Read an article about the whole thing here:
http://phys.org/news/2015-06-surface-black-hole-firewalland-nature.html